Indeed, I don't understand the obsession with surviving to an old age... why? so you can hobble around confused and shitting yourself? or so your children can leave you to die in a smelly old nursing home? or are you more excited to live to see your grandchildren fighting over your life savings?
You say that now, but wait until you are 55 years old. If you take care of yourself you won't be confused and shitting yourself well into your 80's. If you are so against shitting yourself and being confused ( remember that everybody was doing this when they were a baby!), then kill yourself at the first sign your mental state is going downhill. Watching your grandchildren argue over your life savings is worth killing yourself over in a painful way? Really??? How about hiring a good lawyer who draws up a descent will, that will solve the problem.
Do you think smokers find out they have lung cancer, accept responsibility for their decision to smoke, and just go shoot themselves in the woods? NO, of course not. They milk the taxpayer healthcare system for billions to prevent their imminent death a few more months, or even days. It's easy to say this when you are young, but in 20 years, smokers, you might be that person in the hospital bed, hooked up to tubes. You will be dying and your friends won't visit because they don't want to be around their dying friend, and you'll die all by yourself, comforted by the fact you "enjoyed life to it's fullest" (more like financed the good life of the non-smoking corporate owners of cigarette companies!)
Naw I'd rather just knock off those last miserable thirty years and enjoy myself.
Well if you consider inhaling 200 poisonous chemicals "enjoying yourself" then something is definitely wrong with you. If paying a company to poison you, and ultimately kill yourself is "enjoying yourself". then you are insane. If wheezing, coughing up black stuff and blood for decades is your idea of fun, then please don't invite me to any of your party's! If dying a long, slow and painful death in your late 40's or 50's is your idea of enjoyment, well.. you get the idea.
Let's weight the pros and cons
Pros of cigarette smoking
- You look cool (well at least the people who smoke think this, to everyone else you look stupid)
- You want to be anti establishment (school said dont smoke, so I will do it anyways! ya!)
- You really bought into the whole marlboro man cowboy thing
- You are a coffee shop type who wears a beree (sp?) , and smoking is part of your social costume
- You think it helps you stay thin, is your clever alternative to exercise

- It helps you "shit"
Notice I didn't say "the high". That's because you don't get any high from cigareettes. Yeah, maybe on the first couple of ones. But after that, the only reason you are smoking is to keep the uncomfortable withdrawl symptoms from taking effect. That is ADDICTION. Stop claiming you do it for the high, or enjoyment, or any other reason. You. Are. Addicted! Since you are in denial, and I know you dismiss this statement, let me say it again. You are addicted to a product that kills you, and you pay good money to the corporation who designs the product to be more addictive, appealing, and deadly. You are paying someone (although slowly) to poison you, which will end in death.
Ok. Now let's list some of the cons :poison: :poison: :poison: :poison:
- You can't run more than 20 meters without choking up flem
- You stink
- Your teeth look disgusting and your breath smells like a dead rat
- Cancer, heart disease, you know.. all those pesky little things that KILL YOU
- Lung Cancer (pretty much a given)
- Huge medical bills from all your medical problems that taxpayers pick up
(remember how femanon was talking about grandchildren) - well you don't have to worry about that, beacuse you'll die before you ever meet your grandchildren! :beat:
- It costs a lot of money you could spend on better things
- Your ciggarette butts pollute beaches and are gross and can start fires in homes when you fall asleep
- And to restate the obvious _ they will kill you and shave decades off your life __
Oh yeah, you're young and don't care. Live hard and die young! :dose:

Come on! could you be any MORE ignorant sounding? life is precious, even if you havent realized it yet. Maybe you wont realize it until the doctor tells you that you have 6 months left to live. well, I pray and hope you don't have to wait that long to figure out how rare the gift of existence is!!!
Yul Bryner - yeah that dude was cool. He was good looking, tan , in shape and always had a sexy cigarette in his hand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNjunlWUJJI he died from lung cancer!
look at this guy, he's certainly "enjoying life!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRHvZazd4IMThe evidence is in :deal: ! If you don't stop living in denial :wall: , and paying people to poison you :flame: , you will end up :poison: !
I seriously wish someone could just give one good reason for smoking.. because the only REAL reason is to stave off the inevitable withdrawl symptoms, which are so uncomfortable people will continue to use a deadly substance even though they KNOW it will kill them. It's not like this is the 1950's and people still didn't know they were deadly. At least they could claim ignorance. You smokers today are willfully suicidal and I just can't get my head around paying someone to poison me by getting me addicted to a product that physically hurts and causes psychological problems to stop using. It doesn't make logical sense at all, but addiction denial is a powerful psychological force, capable of creating arguments that make sense to those making it, yet nobody else.. funny how that works, huh?